“The Long-lived Horned Rabbit’s mana stone…!”

With the Long-lived Horned Rabbit’s mana stone, they might be able to break this world’s King’s curse.

And perhaps they could even fix this world’s Levinas’s broken horn.

After all, the Long-lived Horned Rabbit was the guardian of all horned rabbits.

“Hmm…”

But how to block mana?

Would praying desperately like when using magic work?

As Levinas stared down at the Long-lived Horned Rabbit’s mana stone-

“King?”

Gaeul’s ears perked up as she turned toward the door.

Something was wrong with her master.

Sensing Gyeoul’s crisis, Gaeul ran out the door without a moment’s hesitation.

“Gaeul puppy!”

This world’s Levinas chased after her.

The anxiety from when she lost Gaeul drove this world’s Levinas to move.

As the two ran outside, Levinas remained in the hospital room staring at the mana stone.

She had realized what she must do.

She would use the Long-lived Horned Rabbit’s power to make everyone happy.

Levinas decided to focus on what she could do.

**

Gyeoul was captured by the pterosaur monster, Teranos, and soared through the sky.

This world’s Saebyeok’s heart sank watching Gyeoul rapidly disappear into the distance.

The image overlapped with Gaeul being taken by that creature in the past.

The helplessness of being unable to do anything squeezed her heart.

“N-no…”

Was there no one who could help?

Saebyeok looked around frantically, but no adventurers capable of pursuing Teranos were present.

The guild’s main adventurers were currently catching up on much-needed sleep.

They hadn’t had proper rest since that day.

Perhaps because this wave consisted of orcs that any decent adventurer could handle?

The main force hadn’t even come out to conserve energy.

The creature had targeted that moment to attack the guild.

It was wickedly clever – enough to make her want to tear it apart.

“Ah…”

There was nothing she could do.

Helplessness consumed Saebyeok’s entire body.

As Saebyeok stared helplessly at the disappearing Gyeoul-

Bang-!

A sonic boom like an explosion rang out from the top floor of the collapsed guild building.

What launched along with the exploding debris was a sword.

“Screee!”

The sword, flying like a flash of light, precisely pierced through Teranos’s right leg.

As Teranos’s right leg was torn off, it dropped Gyeoul who it had been holding.

“…!”

Could it be Master?

Saebyeok knew Master hadn’t slept for two months.

Yet such speed and power…

Just as Saebyeok grasped a moment of hope-

“Screee!”

Teranos caught its torn-off leg in its beak.

Gyeoul was still trapped in that leg.

It was relentlessly persistent.

That persistence only deepened Saebyeok’s despair.

“Ah…”

Holding its leg in its beak, Teranos flew away at high speed.

Watching the creature shrink to a mere dot, Saebyeok collapsed to the ground.

Again.

Failed to protect again.

Why was she so pathetic and useless?

Saebyeok covered her face with both hands.

“King!”

A precious voice called through the darkness made by her hands.

Gaeul pushed away the darkness, and Saebyeok turned toward the voice.

Heuk.

Gaeul ran after Gyeoul with her tongue sticking out.

Though Teranos was no longer visible, she ran straight ahead as if knowing where it went.

And beside her ran a child who looked exactly like her.

‘Gaeul…’

Gaeul was a child who never gave up despite countless failures.

A child who would ultimately succeed.

While Gaeul hadn’t given up yet, she herself already…

Clench-

Saebyeok balled her fists and stood up.

It was too early to give up.

Gyeoul captured by that creature had still been alive until the end.

“Let’s go together.”

Saebyeok ran after Gaeul.

Meanwhile, Gyeoul captured by Teranos-

“Nyaaah!”

Could only scream, unable to think straight from Teranos’s incredible speed.

She also released strong pheromones signaling she was in crisis.

Help me.

Please help me.

Gyeoul’s emergency signal reached even guild members outside through the portal.

Through the portal Gaeul had crossed.

**

“Nyaaah!”

Wind mercilessly whipped against my face.

Just how far had I flown?

I barely managed to open my eyes in this mind-numbing situation.

A vast city spread out below.

Unlike the devastated guild area, the city was surprisingly clean.

Perhaps the monster attacks concentrated on the guild made that area appear more ravaged.

‘That’s…’

Countless portals were visible throughout the city.

Some portals were actively spewing out monsters, which immediately headed toward Yeomyeong Park.

For some reason, they were targeting areas where people were concentrated.

“Ah…”

This wasn’t the time to be sightseeing.

I needed to get down first.

By the time I finished that thought, I had already arrived at a mountain peak.

‘Really fast.’

The creature gradually slowed down, perhaps intending to land on the mountain peak.

Thanks to this, my fear subsided and I could think properly.

‘Ah…! Ghost form!’

As it began approaching the mountain peak to finish its flight, I quickly activated ghost form.

Swish-

The pressure from the foot gripping me disappeared.

As soon as I was free from its foot, I deactivated ghost form.

“Screee?”

The creature looked down startled when I slipped from its foot.

I looked up at it, then looked down below.

“Oh?”

Where I had fallen was a massive nest.

A nest made not of branches, but of entire fallen trees.

In the nest, baby pterosaurs larger than me gaped their mouths wide.

As if to catch and eat me as I fell.

So this persistent giant pterosaur was raising babies?

Its maternal instinct must be incredibly strong.

Though the baby pterosaurs’ gaping mouths were frightening, I jumped toward them without fear.

After all, I still had ghost form.

Swoosh-

As ghost-form me entered a baby pterosaur’s mouth, the mother pterosaur flying in the sky departed.

It seemed to think I had been eaten by the baby pterosaur.

‘Good.’

Without the big one, the little ones were nothing.

Passing through the baby pterosaur’s body, I immediately canceled ghost form and ran.

These creatures that could only struggle in place were no match for me.

‘…Should I kill the babies?’

Left like this, they would try to eat more people.

But wouldn’t that make the mother pterosaur rampage even more?

As I stood at the edge of the nest seriously pondering-

Pat-

A small footstep sounded above my head.

“Huh?”

I quickly looked up.

A face peeked out between fallen trees.

“Master!”

It was Gaeul.

Upon finding me, Gaeul hurriedly climbed down the fallen trees.

“Gaeul?”

“Master! Master!”

Hop hop.

After bouncing around me, Gaeul clung tightly to me.

She started licking my cheek but suddenly stopped with a start.

A blank look came over Gaeul’s wide eyes.

“What’s wrong? Don’t I taste like Master?”

“Nyuu…!”

“Hehe…”

I see.

This must be this world’s Gaeul.

Though I’d been worried when caught by the pterosaur, I was glad to see Gaeul like this.

“Heuk…!”

Just as I tried to greet this world’s Gaeul properly, she startled and climbed up the fallen trees.

After some whining sounds from Gaeul, something fell below the nest.

Thud-!

They were corpses of a wild boar, water deer, and goblins.

The goblins and water deer made sense, but how did she get the wild boar?

More importantly, why bring corpses?

Before I could wonder further, Gaeul jumped back down to the nest.

“Master!”

Gaeul carried a goblin corpse toward the baby pterosaurs.

When she set down the goblin corpse a short distance away, one baby pterosaur swallowed it whole.

The other baby pterosaurs slowly crawled along the ground, swallowing the wild boar and water deer.

“…Are you feeding the pterosaurs?”

“Nyuu…!”

But why?

As I tilted my head in confusion, Gaeul grabbed my hand and started running.

The massive nest made of trees.

We slipped into a gap between the nest materials.

Hidden between the trees, we observed the babies through a small gap.

Several minutes later.

“Screee!”

The giant pterosaur that had left returned to the nest.

In its remaining foot was a living person.

A woman who appeared to be in her early to mid-twenties.

“Scree!”

“Kyaaah!”

It set down the living woman near its babies.

When the woman tried to escape, it nudged her with its beak until she fell.

‘Oh no.’

A person was going to be eaten.

Though I wanted to help, Gaeul held my hand and shook her head.

‘……’

Was she saying we couldn’t save her with our abilities?

Had this world’s Gaeul compromised with reality?

Clench.

As I bit my lip in frustration, something surprising happened.

The baby pterosaurs refused to eat the woman.

‘Ah!’

That’s when I realized.

Why Gaeul had fed the wild boar and other corpses to the baby pterosaurs.

She wanted to make them too full to eat people.

My tail shot straight up.

An electric thrill ran through my whole body.

“Screee?”

The giant pterosaur tilted its head watching its babies refuse to eat the woman.

Though it kept nudging her with its beak, the babies were too full to even look at her.

“Screeee?”

Finally the mother gave up trying to feed her to them.

However, it didn’t leave the woman alone.

Peck peck.

It stabbed the woman’s limbs with the tip of its beak.

“Kyaaah!”

As the woman screamed in pain, it took off into the sky.

‘Ah.’

Had it attacked her limbs to prevent movement?

So its babies could eat her when they got hungry.

Though the woman screamed, unable to use her limbs, this was our perfect chance.

Gaeul and I ran toward the woman while the creature was gone.

As we ran, I realized why Gaeul hadn’t returned to the park.

She had been here saving people like this.

Our Gaeul truly was the best.

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